Wild and Woolly Mammoths
by Aliki
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An easy-to-read account of the woolly mammoth, a giant land mammal which has been extinct for over 11,000 years.Tags
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This is a straightforward book about mammoths; where they lived, what they ate, how they died, what kinds there were, how we know about them... Lots of nice pictures of mammoths. However, you should be warned that not only does it have lots of lovely latin mammoth names (rehearse before reading), it also has lots of pictures of people hunting, slaughtering, and using mammoths. The fourth or fifth time we read it, my daughter got wide-eyed at the people using fire to drive a mammoth off a cliff and then spearing it. "That's not OK!" she said, leading to the sort of moral conversation that is perhaps not how I planned to start my morning (we read a waking-up book as well as 2 bedtime books). The following page has the mammoth being show more slaughtered, complete with pictures, and my husband woke up to that description.
I'm all for realism, but I'm thinking this one is coming out of the bedtime/morning rotation. show less
I'm all for realism, but I'm thinking this one is coming out of the bedtime/morning rotation. show less
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Aliki was born Aliki was born on September 3, 1929 in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art in 1951. After college, she worked in the display department at J. C. Penney Co. in New York for a year and then as a free-lance artist and art teacher in Philadelphia. In 1956 show more she spent several months traveling, painting, and sketching in Europe. In 1957, Aliki married Franz Brandenberg, also a writer, and they settled in Switzerland, where she worked as a free-lance artist. In 1960 the Brandenbergs moved to New York City. Aliki continued to write and illustrate children's books, both fiction and nonfiction. As well as illustrating her own works, she has also illustrated over fifty books for others, including those of her husband Franz, Joanna Cole and Paul Showers. Aliki and her family moved to England in 1977 where she continues to write and illustrate. She has been the recipient of many honours including the New York Academy of Sciences Children's Book Award and the Prix du Livre pour Enfants (Geneva). She received the New Jersey Institute of Technology Award for The Listening Walk in 1961 and for Bees and Beelines in 1964, the Boys Club of America Junior Book Award for Three Gold Pieces: A Greek Folk Tale in 1968, and the Children's Book Showcase for At Mary Bloom's in 1977. She also won the New York Academy of Sciences (younger) Award for Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians in 1977 and the Garden State Children's Book Award (younger nonfiction) for Mummies Made In Egypt in 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Wild and Woolly Mammoths
- Original publication date
- 1977
- Important events
- ice ages
- First words
- A wild and woolly beast once roamed the cold northern part of the earth.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We can only imagine how it was when wild and woolly mammoths roamed the earth.
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.83)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 2
